Clothespin



G. W. STITZER.

CLOTHESPIN. APPLICATION FILED APR.20.1913.

1,330,147. Patented Feb.10,192o.`

UNITED sTATEs GEORGE W. STITZER, OF MAHANOY CITY, PENNSYLVANIA- CLOTHESPIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1o, 1920.

Application led April 20, 1918. Serial No. 229,834.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE NV. STITZER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mahanoy City, in the county of Schuylkill, State oi" Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inV Clothespins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de-V scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

rFhis invention is directed to improvements in clothes pins, and has for its object to provide an article ci this character constructed so that the same will remain permanently upon the line.

A further object of the invention is to provide a metallic clothes pin formed from a single length orp resilient wire and constructed in such a manner that the same will remain permanently upon the line and can be moved along the line to various points. v n

Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more tully described and particularly pointed `out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reterence will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of retorence denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device showing it on the line;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a bottom planl view of the device.

The pin is formed from a single length of resilient wire which is bent so as to provide at one end coils 1 which collectively make up an eye loosely strung on the line 2, while the other end of the wire is bent to provide two upright coils 3 which are greater in diameter than the coils 1.

The wire runs from the top of the coils 1 to the top of the coils 3 along what might be called the shank 5 of the pin, the same being depressed at its mid-length as shown. After making the two convolutions or coils 3 constituting the jaws of the pin, the terminal of the wire is bent laterally and formed' into an open hook 4 which passes over and looselv embraces said shank near the coils 3, the throat of the hook beuig amply wide to receive the line 2 and to permit considerable lateral movement ot the shank.

The line is strung through the eye 'formed by the coils 1, and when the pin is not in use it hangs from this eye in a plane transverse to the length ot the line. When it is to be used its lower end is raised and swung around over the line and the jaws or coils 3 passed astride the line and the piece of wash or clothing thereon and borne downward. lThis spreads the jaws as the open hook 4 permits, and when the shank 5 comes in contact with the line, the latter has risen perhaps half the height of the coils 3 as shown in Fig. 1.

Attention is invited to the tact thatthc position of the hook d at the inner side of the coils leaves them open for use as jaws at their opposite or outer side which would be the end of the pin. Therefore it the vuser prefers to pass the pin downward endwise over the line onto the piece of wash it can be done, and in that case the pins need not be strung on the line at all but may be taken from and returned to a basket as engaged by the coils 3 but also by the depression 5 thus rmly clamping the clothes to the line.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that a clothes pin has been provided which remains permanently on the line and which can be easily and quickly moved for clamping the clothes upon the line. It will be further noted that a clothes pin has been provided which will last indefinitely `and one which will at all times be ready for use.

That is claimed is y The herein described clothes pin formed from a single piece of resilient wire having upright coiis at one end constituting an eye, a pair of upright coils at its other end standing substantially in the plane of the eye and constituting jaws, the stretch of wire leading from the top of the eye coils into the top of the jaw coils constituting the shank of the pin and being depressed, and the terminal of the wire after making the jaw coils being formed into a ho-ok passing transversely over and loosely embracing said shank at the inside ofthe jaw coils Whereby the latter may spread laterally for the reception of the clothes line at the sides or ends of the structure, said hook opening downward and being of a size to receive 10 the line when the latter contacts with'the depressed portion of the shank.

In testimony whereof I aiiX myV signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE W. STITZER Witnesses:

Y H. L. AMEs,

ANNIE SEAGER.v 

